Who am I?

Just some background about me! I am an average American with a wife, two kids, and a full time job that takes 45+ hours a week. I am 5' 11" and at this moment weight about 307.5 lbs.

You might wonder what makes me think I can loose the weight and get fit on my own. I was not always like this... In high school I was very athletic. I played offensive guard and defensive linebacker during football, was a state qualifying heavy weight wrestler, and was a shot put and discus thrower during track season.

Wrestling was by far my best sport. I have many metals and have the record for most pins in a season. My strategy was easy, I was a light heavy weight about 206 lbs, very strong and very conditioned. So all I had to do was keep out from under the big guys and wear them out!!! In case you don’t know much about wrestling the heavy weight division was 190 lbs to 275 lbs. And believe me when I say the 275 lbs was the max… You wouldn’t think that there are high school students that weigh that much but once I wrestled a guy who had to run to make weight. Again if you don’t know much about wrestling, that means this guy weighted more then 275 lbs and had to put on a rubber sweat suit and run around the gym before weigh-ins to sweat off a few pounds to make weight.

After I got out of college I was a gym rat! Two of my best friends and I went to the gym religiously three or four times a week for a little over two years. So I know what it takes to be in great physical shape. My free weight bench press was 325 lbs and free weight squat was 600 lbs.

During the two years of being a gym rat I was working on getting my ACE (American Council on Exercise) Personal Trainer certification. Like so many other things in my life my follow through was lacking. I went through all of the materials I was sent from them, I learned a ton of stuff but felt like I got the knowledge I needed and didn’t bother on spending the extra $219 to actually take the test and get the certification.

It has been many years since I have been in great shape. I am a desk jockey at work and spend most of my time sitting front of a computer. I have gained 100 lbs since high school and now I have MADE THE DECISION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!